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The Danger and Cruelty of Live Animal Markets continues unabated

To the Attention of UN Secretary-General António Guterres

In markets across the world, exotic and traditionally farmed animals are traded and brutally slaughtered for customers who desire to eat freshly killed meat.

Animals at these markets are mixed together in cramped cages and unsanitary enclosures, creating the perfect breeding ground for zoonotic diseases. It is in these unregulated markets where diseases like SARS originated, and where scientists believe COVID-19 began.

Because of the public health crisis these markets can cause, as well as the intense suffering inflicted on animals, these live animal markets need to be banned.

We, the undersigned, call upon Your Excellencies to demand that these live animal markets be immediately banned wherever they are operated, saving animals from a hell on earth and protecting the public from threats to their health and safety.

PETITIONING:

  • H.E. UN Secretary-General António Guterres
  • H.E. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed
  • H.E. UN General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
  • H.E. UN Economic and Social Council President Mona Juul
  • H.E. UN Security Council President Zhang Jun

Animal Equality Offices

  • H.E. Mrs. Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN
  • H.E. Ms. Karen Elizabeth Pierce, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN
  • H.E. Mr. Agustín Santos Maraver, Permanent Representative of Spain to the UN
  • H.E. Mr. Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN
  • H.E. Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN
  • H.E. Mrs. Maria Angela Zappia, Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN
  • H.E. Mr. Ronaldo Costa Filho, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN
  • H.E. Mr. Syed Akbaruddin, Permanent Representative of India to the UN

Thank you for standing up for animals!

Live animal markets are truly hell on Earth and present an immediate threat to our health and safety. For the sake of everyone, it’s time they are shut down once and for all.

Please, help spread the word. Share this video and petition with your friends and family.

Thank you, {firstname}!

Your actions are changing the world for animals everywhere. Thank you again for your support and we’ll keep you informed on any progress we make.

For the animals,
Sharon Núñez
President
Animal Equality

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The Investigation

Last year a pandemic virus emerged that has altered our way of life.

In April 2020 we released a video of live animal markets of India exposing the public health crises these markets cause, as well as the intense suffering inflicted on farmed animals.

We continued our investigation during the pandemic and were appalled to witness that despite the dangers of live animal markets on public safety, they continue to operate unabated.

The animals at these markets suffer not only from mistreatment, but also from a weakened immune system from the stress of their transport, confinement, and unhygienic living conditions.

They suffer due to overcrowding and are deprived of food and water, sometimes for days.

Slaughter is carried out without stunning, with the animals left to agonize for minutes after their throats are slit.

There is no health inspection conducted before the animals are slaughtered at these markets.

Carcasses are prepared and sold for human consumption in the most filthy and unhygienic conditions.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India prohibits meat shops from slaughtering animals but it is rampant across the country.

Despite their danger, these places are still open to the public, drawing massive crowds of people, and worse, continuing to trade and brutally kill animals of all kinds.

For animals, these markets spell misery. For humans, they represent an immediate threat to our health and safety.

For the sake of everyone, it’s time to ban live animal markets once and for all.

Please, sign our petition calling for a worldwide ban of live animal markets and share this campaign with as many people as possible.

Together, we can make the world a safer and more compassionate place.

The Evidence

Animal Equality presents its second study into live animal markets exposing the public health crises these markets cause, as well as the intense suffering inflicted on farmed animals.

Live animal markets are places where animals are transported, traded and killed without protocols for food safety, animal welfare or the health of the people involved. The study exposed how:

The birds are sent on rigorous journeys which last for hours, sometimes days without food or water. Many die while the rest are barely alive.
The live chickens are brutally pulled out in groups and weighed by hanging them upside down.
At the meat market chickens are crammed into small cages for hours and sometimes days without any food or water.
Many chickens, ducks, goats lined up for slaughter develop various infections and diseases. There is no health inspection conducted on them before slaughter.
The throats of the birds are slit and they are thrown into drain bins where they languish in pain for several minutes before they die.
The meat is prepared in the most filthiest conditions.

Help Us Ban Live Animal Markets 2020

In 2020, Animal Equality launched a worldwide campaign and petition calling for the immediate closure of live animal markets across the globe. In exclusive footage shot by Animal Equality at live animal markets in China, Vietnam and India, animals such as deer, raccoons, crocodiles, dogs, goats and chickens are shown living in filthy conditions, suffering from dehydration, starvation and disease. These markets are also a threat to public health and have been the source of documented disease outbreaks in the past, including SARS.

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